Even Revkin, an ardent warmist, recognizes that naming hurricanes after political opponents is a really dumb idea.

That is not the only dumb “warmist” idea this month. They’ve come from all quarters.

Revkin on Proposed Hurricane Renaming Campaign

The group 350.org, founded by radical environmental journalist Bill McKibben, seriously proposed a campaign to change the naming convention for hurricanes. It suggested naming them after Republican political enemies.

It started up a full-fledged campaign, complete with a petition, called “Climate Name Change” to make it happen. As of this writing they claim 63,775 signatures.

GASP! Could it be true? Could global warming actually do good? That’s heresy!

In yesterday’s story Revkin also includes a snippet from the recently re-leaked IPCC AR5 report that says there is long-term “low confidence” that there will be increases in intense cyclone (hurricane) activity. That is a change from the current IPCC AR4 assessment that says increases are “likely”.

Revkin then goes on to explain how the whole hurricane name change idea will probably backfire by using a clever Muhammad Ali analogy.

Other Non-scientific Capers

That is not the only dumb idea warmists have come up with this month. President Obama jumped into the act, too.

The 20th century temperature run-up has been variously called Global Warming, Climate Change and even Global Climate Disruption. Outside of the Climate Science community, a simple, verifiable determination of what caused it and why it stopped has been made. Analysis made public at http://climatechange90.blogspot.com/2013/05/natural-climate-change-has-been.html includes an equation based on rational physics that, without considering any influence from CO2 whatsoever and using only one external forcing, has calculated average global temperatures since they have been accurately measured world wide (approximately 1895) with an accuracy of 90% (R2 = 0.8982, correlation coefficient = 0.948). Including the influence of CO2 (a second independent variable) increased the accuracy an insignificant amount to R2 = 0.9006.